[Baidu News API] Performance Degradation

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Updates from SerpApi 5

1. investigatingApr 13, 2026, 6:35 PM UTC

   We’re currently seeing elevated response times for Baidu News API. Our engineering team is investigating and working to restore normal performance. Public Roadmap issue: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3709

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2. investigatingApr 14, 2026, 2:26 AM UTC

   We are still investigating the cause of this issue. Response times have returned to baseline.

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3. identifiedApr 20, 2026, 1:12 PM UTC

   We've identified the issue and are now working on a fix. We should have more updates soon.

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4. monitoringApr 27, 2026, 12:26 AM UTC

   We've deployed a fix to address the issue. We're currently monitoring the perfromance.

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5. resolvedApr 28, 2026, 12:25 PM UTC

   We've recovered from the performance degradation with Baidu News API. The perforemance is back to it's previous state.

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Corrections

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